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Thanks Rand , for making us understand The Hummingbird update. Well, I feel The Conceptualization of the Search Query is been done since Some Months.. it is just The way of making it publicly announced By Google. Being A constant Searcher I feel it as a Good Rewarding update for me ( At last I won't see those sites in the SERP , created only on some Money Making Keywords :-) ) .... Very important thing which I liked a Lot is the Last Statement i.e. Better Content > More Content . The Only thing for which Now I am worried is Calculation and Estimation of the ROI Metrics Value would be much different (might be difficult too) for The Marketers!

It's the User Intent as a Primary Key factor for the Search engines ..Now.

Now I have become Fan of You Buddy, Last time when I had read your post regarding Your Case Study, It helped me a lot to understand and assist some of My clients. Now You have given me a detailed step by step By Guide , and Let me tell You, it's really really helpful.

By the way should we expect a Detailed Guide from you regarding the Search Engine Updates recovery , such as Penguin and Panda? That'll be really helpful for us.

An another question, it might be different from the Topic of the Post

- I am currently working on A site which specializes in Company Incorporation services, But the Sad part is that The website's Inbound Link Profile is composed of 80% spammy links , or somewhat the links from those sites which No One would like to link from(Such as Social Bookmarking sites, Article networks etc. Duh... its really long list).

So Should I work on Link removal process and By the same time create some Valuable content relationship, or should I suggest the client to start a New website on whole level? (You can consider me a silly Guy for asking such question :-) )

Thanks for introducing this Tool. This is definitely much time saving tool. For Bulk data generation , This tool stands out better than the UI of OSE. Appreciated your efforts for developing this and introducing us.

This new awesome change made me so emotional... Felt like watching a live pokemon movie..where I am getting to see Our Old SEOmoz to evolve into MOZ. That's seriously magnificent change Rand. I am excited to be the part of this unique transition from former to present stage of Inbound Marketing.

Hi Lewis, Thanks a lot for Such detailed and Useful reply! One more question which I really want to ask you about is, If a website has thousands of spammed incoming links , how would you tackle such situation?As far as I see getting the Links data from OSE and sorting them would be a long tasks , but if some of the spammed links don't provide us the control to edit them, how could we get it solved? (in one case we might contact those site admins, to get the links removed but if Those website owners neither replies nor takes an action so what Step should we do? ) (what if the Number of site admins to contact is in thousands, is there any Tool you recommend us for sophisticated communication with thousands of Site Admins? ) Waiting for your responses!Thanks once Again Lewis! Ajay

Hi Lewis, Thanks for sharing Your Agency's story of getting rescued from The Google Penalties. I shall say, Very few lucky ones know the Right way to get the Penalties removed. Overall it ended up with some stress and some hard work for You, that seems from your Post. So my question is , How many number of days did it took for your Website to get out of the Penalty, after You received the first message from Google Guys?

In simpler words, overall here we need to say is to build
positive and effective relationships with everyone of the Business loop.
Whether it’s business client or the Webmaster , Website owner like us. The
positive relationship with some professionalism is the key to Success. Thanks for
such entrepreneurial piece Shadi Khattab

Hi Danny, Usually we used to get Posts mostly
bragging about infographic and thus I presume it was the hype because of which
competition became more even for the infographics. It is ironic to find info
about When NOT to use infographic! I understood every point except one i.e. if
budget is less than $500 why can’t we use infographic? In simpler words,
consider a person with good Photoshop and designing skills does a research about
certain concept and with help of other fellows he develops the infographic and amazingly
that infographic turns out to be popular in social media sites like Pinterest
and others. So in such case, the money expenditure would be almost zero with adequate
time utilization for research. So the Point i.e. Not Having budget more than $500
points towards the unprepared guys with Almost no skills?

Gareth , Thanks for the post with some fresh remixed ideas about infographics! I loved the way of making use of infographic with articles for Guest Post! Currently I am facing a problem regarding infogr.am ! The inforgraphics couldn't be saved in real time (especially when you align the elements in an order), the embedding feature is somewhat not working! :(

First of all thanks for this Post! I would say I am little
bit biased about your Post title, I thought you would be talking about the main
obstacles faced by the Small businesses for finding high quality SEO
management! But the situation is quite different here; we are for PPC vs. SEO! Though
I would say, PPC has taken a big spread over a major part in SERP,it doesn’t
mean it will be the ultimate way of marketing! For E.g. If a website is having
no social presence and no RELEVANT link sharing or any of it’s related content
available on some other qualified website/blog , will that site even stand good for
PPC? My Point is , if we start PPC for such kinds of site with ZERO level SEO and social presence that will just lead to paid clicks(that’s
for sure) but once we stop the PPC ,the status of site will be again NIL in
SERP!

On the other hand if we do Social presence with some sort of
SEO, that would create a baseline for that website! And as per my practical
thought since you started this post basically for small businesses, PPC is not an easy and
affordable way of marketing because of High costs of bids! Additionally just
Google is not the single one to let us decide PPC as a sole part of marketing!
In a whiteboard Friday, Bing Spokesperson Duane Forrester had said that In bing
the Conversion ratio for organic clicks is better than that of Google hence
that definitely signifies about a strong need of Social promo and SEO! My
conclusive thought about this topic is that, Think little bit outer of Google
and that would clearly signify that SEO and PPC both are important and none of
them are easy and affordable if quality of management and campaigns are taken into
consideration! Thanks Awesome Post though!

First of all thanks for introducing us
the sophisticated and simple concept regarding the importance and effectiveness
of Content! Indeed On-Page Stuff matters a lot because at the end, it’s the
only part which plays the role in making the user engaged to WebPages!

I have a question, you specified about
your process of content updating and traffic monitoring with user engagement in
prospect! I would like to know... Did you perform Any Social Activity for the pages?
Thanks

Thanks Joshua, for drawing our attention towards one of the rarest topic available in SEO discussion!

Though page load time is not a big factor from SEO point of view, it(Page Load Time) plays an important role in terms of Users perspective for Ecommerce sites,E.g. No one would like to wait for the "add to cart “and "Checkout" page to load for more than 1 minute!

I liked the Awesome set of Questions with answers! I have a Query Joshua, I would be pleased if you could provide us some more information regarding "PreLoading"! How do you do it in your organization?

Thanks Amine for the wonderful easy to grasp tips! The very first tip i.e. about Social integration is somewhat I liked most, as we all know that the Internet marketing has been transformed with bigger changes in 2012. Even the way ,we do link building and content publishing need to be implemented in sophisticated way. Now instead of running behind the exact match , We have been focusing on Branding and long tail keywords targeting in natural way! Another point which I liked much is about the internal link structure and focusing on every inner page, this is probably the best part which everyone of us should consider!

I have a request Amine, I got some good on Page tips in a post of Whiteboard friday of Rand. It would be nice if we could read some more tips from you about the On page optimization in consideration of Penguine Update[ Nowadays I have to Hate cute Penguins :( ]

Being a new beginner in the professional world, I have always been thinking about a particular way to make people link to me for more Give and take i.e. tit for tat relations! And Sir Mike, I should say thanks to you because , I got to learn more from my own work of SEO. Now I am seeing everyone as Blog, Websites in real world. Some of them are of great IA and some of them seems little bit of Spam i.e. Exaggrated by lots of blah blah!

One thing which I would say is that this set up of IA and RA can be utilized in every kind of professional Life!

Thanks Mike. Thumb Up to you! I am feeling little bit like an amature real world analyst watching everyone as website and their values!! ;)

Cyrus,That's one of the easy to follow and implelment and important WBF !! One thing which I have got in mind for sure i.e. The Over optimization is little bit tricky to identify!! Thanks to you for letting us know about the real difference between over optimization and general natural optimization!! The Freshness factor is nodoubt , very important factor and that is the reason the Newsites ,blogs are much loved by the SE's!! Thanks Cyrus, Thumb up to you!!

Again another valuable stuff from you Dr. Pete!!! Well I have got this point in my mind (after going through your post) that The right proportion of On Page optimization to link Building can never be defined. The reason for this fluctuating ratio is simple enough i.e. Constant changes in Search Engines way of crawling and indexing data!! I follow the mixed rule i.e. Keep on doing the stuffs with flexibility!! Thanks Dr. Pete, Thumb Up to you!!

One of the highly useful post by you Gfirorelli!! I was aware of only some of few sites for the content curation activity but now I got so many !! I liked pearltress because of shoing the contents in the Pearl tree format!

In the last point of your Post i.e. Branding, ORM and Reference Traffic : You said for ORM the content curation can be very useful by making the usage of it on popular sites like Pinterest!! I request you to please provide me a short and small example so that I can make this concept clearer ! Thanks Sir. Thumb up to you!!

First of all I get little bit skeptical when it comes for rank checking with the help of any third party tools. and additionally the manual rank checking sometimes leads to irrelevant data gathering if its done by any immature or any newbie guy!!

If we are getting the instant presentation of the Ranking positions from Google Analytics itself , that's much more Good and Trustworthy and it doesn't require any extra hard work.. That's Great! Thanks Bryan.. Awesome stuff from you, and the nice fact is that we can make it in use immediately!! Thumb up to you!!

That's totally buzz like post for me!! Well I have been using pinterest since last 4 months and I have seen good repins over there but as you said , "Many companies think that it's not useful that much for generating the traffic to the main target site!"---Now this sentence seems irrelevant and untrue because you shown a real good example of Instructographics , which can definitely get lots of people to the main site!! Intially i was thinking that Pinterest is just about having Good HD pics and infographics but instructographics (it's new and interesting for me) has much better potential to make the user click and visit the main website!!

It doesn't matter for me , whether females percentage is higher or male's percentage over the Pinterest because same statement was being applied for FB in it's initial days but now the scenario is changed , Now everyone is over FB , hence I strongly believe that Pinterest also will have every kind of folks!!! Thanks!!! Awesome Post Colbs, A big thumb up to you for your thorough research about Pinterest!!

That's aweome post from your Carson! I was never having that thought of making full concentration on a particular constraints!! Usually many folks just like me, try to think and do brainstorming a lot over a broad topic and this tends to either a frustration or a boring concept to produce!! But thanks to you, I have got my loophole of Brainstorming.

As per your point Group Discussion is really helpful for brainstorming and getting more ideas for the link baits! The only part for which I fear a lot is that in Group Discussion all members of the Group should participate actively rather than sitting and seeing each others face!!

I am strongly agreed to your point regarding having Good Sleep, because I personally felt its consequences last week!! Gosh I was hardly able to read anything with active mind!!

Last but Not the least, I liked your Numbering system to the main points, it helped me a lot in making my list of steps to do for brainstorming!!! Thanks Carson, Thumb up to you!!

Phil, Honestly from My side, I was not giving much attention to the Sitelinks demotion!! But after going through your experiences about your Practice Fusion, I have made my ears and eyes alert for it! Thanks!

Awesome Post Colin. I liked your point that Gamification should be supplementary to the main promotional activities, because many times people take the gamification as their main core strategy and hence the probability of the efficiency of the Gamification strategy gets lesser.

The Gamification strategy I learned much better when You said the name of App Foursquare.

In Foursquare the users get points in leaderboards, and badges and the mayorships for their most checked in places, and the awesome part is that all of these activities occur publicly hence every user gets more engaged in these activities in order to get the points and mayorships and for more public apperance of their user profiles.

In conclusion, I understood that folks want more public apperance and more interesting stuffs to get engaged in any of the online activities!!

Thanks colin for showing us awesome case of allkpop, because of this I got some more examples. Spotify, a leading music site is also running on the track of gamification. Pinterest also does the same!!

Neil , that is seriously a Handbook like Post having the necessary guidelines for successful blogging.

The Pinterest example is perfect for showing the simple and catchy title and its importance!! BTW Neil, even your every post published in Youmoz has a unique and eye catching title!

As you said, Writing big blocks is not good for blogging, as a matter of fact writing and explaining in big blocks in real life also doesn't work. Nobody likes to listen or read long confusing sentences for more than 5 to 10 minutes.

From your post , I learned some important things, always write in simple language and in clyclic manner i.e. linking the valuable relevant older posts to the new one! And socializing your presence and your content in social media! In Conclusion , The Blogging life is much more like our real life, the way we behave and represent ourselves in real life is same like blogging! By the way I am not perfect enough in Fishing , But I like it!! ;) Nice post and examples Neil, Thumb up to you!!

Highly Informative and Motivating Post Chris.. ! The Reason I said Highly informative is because you not only shown us the real situtation of the SEO industry but you shown us the right way to breakthrough these situations. I am strongly agreed to you Regarding the SEO commoditization in irrelanvant ways by some companies because of this, many clients take the SEO services in wrong prospectus!!!

I would like to thank you for showing us realistic examples of making and exceution of strategies for both kind of websites(New and old). The Pricing system is simply awesome.. La carte system is like WIN-WIN situation for Both of the parts i.e. Clients as well as SEO service providers!!!

Hello Fabian, Just now figured this serious issue in 2 sites of my Network Sites. I recently saw High Bounce rates on my Homepages. but the problem is that i had not checked about this issue since last month!! So I am confused is is the same problem which you mentioned in your Post or else it's as usual as a report has to be. Please reply, I seriously need your opinions about it. I have attached the screenshots of My GA reports! here are their links as follows:

That's seriously a big issue which I had never noticed in My GA profile, but thanks to you Fabian. I used to rely on the bounce rates just because I had the thought, it's GA it can't be wrong(but even a perfection lacks some flexibility)! Fabian you are much like a developer and tester !! Thanks for this useful post because It immediately helped me out to get my real percentage of counts of bounce rates !!! Please keep on posting such kind of practically useful stuffs like this!! Thumb up to you Fabian!!

Thanks Sajeet.. I can't believe My list of social tools and services is getting more bigger!!! I am aware of Followerwonk, but wanted to ask you ,have you used the paid services of Followerwonk? and if not, is there any other tool you have used instead of it? and Last but not the least do we really need any paid subscription of the social services/tools? Please reply!!

Hey Neil, Thanks a lot for this useful and awesome post. everytime you Publish the Post, the Title itself grabs my attention. And the most important fact is that I get something extremely useful from your Posts! This time Your Post is much useful for me as per the Online Reputation and Link building oppurtinities. Honestly If I tell you I needed to ask a question from you regarding Hyper Alerts tool. Since we already get FB notifications in our email about the activities on FB page , why should we go for Hyper Alerts services? In other words Whats the difference between the Hyper Alerts and Custom FB notification alerts? I visited Hyper Alerts Page and over there I got to know that we can get the alerts of the Pages for which we don't have ownership, hence if we try to see the activities of a competitor's page , will Hyper Alerts allow us to do that even if the competitors fan page is protected!? Please reply! Thanks Neil!! Thumb Up to you!

Thanks James.. for your feedback.. By the way.. I have been using your suggested tools since the day I communicated with you for your post http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/advanced-seo-keyword-research-tips-and-ideas-14216 and believe me It is much useful for me even at this time. the only thing for which I regret is that Even Google's own keyword tool would show different results than that of Google Analytics(Never thought Google's own two products will generate different yields for the same topic) ! James your Post is truly valuable for me and everyone!!! You had said in your last Post that you have more information about it on your table and I am curiously waiting for it!

Thanks Rand for this alarm like post. Seriously I got more shocked when I saw for my own set of Hotel Keywords. I searched for those keywords in Google Adwords tool and then in My GA account, and the suggestions are much more lesser compared to the versatile set of keywords shown in GA for their Traffic! Instead Google adwords is showing some other keywords assosciated with my Hotel related keywords(that's not the issue) but as you had said , it's not showing the major ones approx. 20% keywords are not shown in adwords tool compared to that of GA report! I wish I would get some sort of solution about it from SEOmoz. Thanks!!

Indeed awesome post Adam, as we all know , everyone who uses GA is suffering from the problem of (Not provided) data set, and consequently there were many information about it but they were rather informational and predictive type. So I can say this is something which I can actually execute and see the results. well , it gives a rough estimation about differentiating Branded and Non-Branded keywords but it's Good to have a Single Apple rather than waiting for whole lot. Landing page technique is quite smart way to figure out some rough estimates. Thanks Adam!! Would love to read more curative type of posts of GA from you!!! Thumb up to you!!

Joanna.. that's a good detailed description about the Inbound marketing and it's significance. Earlier I used to consider it as a supplementary part of the online promotional activities but now the things have changed, the people's way of using and organizing the data in online world is also changed. The socialism is getting more and more strength and hence it's necessary to take the Inbound marketing as one of the fundamental steps for the online promotion. Infact, in today's Era.. I feel like we SEO folks should cover everything as a part of Inbound marketing. The traditional way of search engine optimization is not just an enough to do , but its more evolved into Inbound Marketing. Thanks Joanna! That was the great read for me!

Hello David, That's a great post for those folks who are still unaware of Blekko. Infact there are so many resources about it on SEOmoz but very few are actually actionable. I liked your way of representation of the slashtag of seo. Infact we can create our own slashtags for more specific tasks but for that a person should have a good Hand on Experience of using advanced custom search of Blekko(that's probably not a tough job but an interesting one to do). Apart of that if a person has a good reputation , he can apply for being an editor in Blekko! Oh Yes I forgot.. We can easily compare 2 websites in terms of their seo factors and we can get an easy analysis of our Target website! Thanks David that was much much interesting post for me! Thumb Up to you!

Hi Joel, Thats a Must to read Post , Before starting out on Social Video Platforms e.g. Youtube, Every newbie and avaerage person like me should read it. The steps you mentioned are really very easy to follow and understand. One of the main important aspects is Youtube Analytics which I would love to share with you a Great Youmozt Post by Brett http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/navigating-youtube-analytics-a-case-study-in-music-part-i .. Thanks Joel.. that was a great read for me!!

First of all Thanks a lot Netvantage Marketing for providing us such handy and extremely useful tool! Since I was already using John's "check my links' extension tool on my Chrome, I thought to try out both of the tools and check if I could get more speedy way of cheking links and their infos. So here I experienced with both of the tools

I Scanned My website, A random Blog and SEOmoz's some random pages! (Sorry for doing in raw way cause I am still under 22 ;)

1.Check My Links : It's faster in checking due to simple feature of just checking the links present on the page.

2. Domain Hunter+:This takes little bit time but gives much useful info about the broken links and the domains the links are being redirected to with just a single click!

3. Check My Links: the tool shows the visual highlighting in Green and Red colour , that's how providing the visual on page highlights for the live and broken/dead links. Glossay look loved it!

4 Domain Hunter+:The main benefit of domain hunter is that it directly gives the details about the domains availbility and the links pointing to it and a straight link to export and register the domains.

My intention is not about saying which tool is superior but to see how would I use both of them in order to enhance my work of checking the broken links across thousands of pages. in conclusion I think both of the tools are supplementary to each other due to their unique features. Thanks Thumb up to You!

Ethan, That's indeed a fabulous tool! The Reason i am thanking you for this tools is because of it's simplicty and clean way of representing results. I tried many Twitter related tools but the main problem was related to the representation of the Reulting URL's. I had to go through every t.co url and filter them from the duplicated one..Gosh that was much frustrating, thanks to you, My work got more cleaned!! I am curiously waiting for it's next version with more features. Thanks Ethan.. Lots of thumb up to you for offering us something useful, actionable and to show others(with proud)!

Indeed Awesome post Geoff specially for those folks acting like Running horses in race. In Schools we were tought that over performing any task leads to unwanted and unfaithful and fake results. Here in the SEO world , it seems much applicable. Many times , people just keep on running behind the anchor texts and without making any estimate they keep on trying to get links for the same anchor texts again and again(and because of this Google would Think--"Why does this Page always get lots of love just for this single Keyword?"). That's How,indeed extra wastage of time and efforts due to over optimization. Thank God, i haven't done this kind of effort instead I am following Rand's Key Tip i.e. Always try to do Branding of your company with multiple variety keywords and always think about the long tail keywords. Hence I always keep on thinking about long tail keywords and branding while trying to aquire links. Thanks Geoff. Thumb Up to you!

Justin..You made me avoid the silliest mistake which I would have done , if not followed your Post. I was thinking about the nested iframe method of the videos embedding(actually I had read about it somewhere) Honestly I was having the same doubt of cloaking risks and it got confirmed from your words as well, I would love to do embedding in Old way, sometimes being OldSchool is safe and Good. And lastly Thanks for the Video-sitemap creation tips, many of the folks still get confused about it, hence it was the great way to sort out the confusions! Thanks Justin It was a great Read for me, thumb up to you!

Will, you have provided me actionble alerts which I can use to monitor my sites with more comfort like a detective LOL. You have said right, we should consider about the symptoms so that before it hurts we get prepared for the required actions in order to minimize the loss. The most important part which I liked much was the Custom Server denisty alert for the Robot.txt file's Url Path and the "no index" phrase found in HTML page. This was one of the serious issue I was suffering from(because the developers do the changes without knowing the possible consequences). That was a great Read for me Will. thanks a lot. Thumb up to you.:) BTW I found 404 Link error for your MD5 Definition link i.e. http://dret.net/glossary/md5

Will. I have found everytime a Conclusion and a Hidden Message from your posts. And you know what this time your post helped me to hold my breath and gave me a confidence about NOT to scare from any of the Future Search Engine's Algorithm Updates, The reason is quite simple "I am not a Scalable SEO and I am Proud of it(Though Sometimes I found it difficult)". I had seen Many bloggers(My work collegues,friends and some folks to whom I personally knew) earning much better by using scalable tactics. They used to call it their smart work .. I wish they would Read this POST! Thanks Will.. Thumb Up to you..

Thanks John, for this awesome post mostly dedicated to Gmail. Some weeks ago I had read a post regarding advanced search parameters in Gmail, and Now Today I got another one stating about the Custom Gmail Shortcuts. The most important Part which I loved so far was the Email Template. Those templates are simply awesome and can be made usable in their respective purposes with slight modifications and literally these templates have saved lots of time of mine. Thumb up to you John. Would be curiosily waiting for your Next post.

Agreed to you, svolinsky. Based on your post.. I got to understand..that SEO of today's era is much different than the previous periods of time. Today's SEO is not about sitting nearby your PC/Mac and doing linkbuilding and stuffing the On page factors. but it's beyond that..Today's SEO is actually a part of Inbound Marketing. And we all know that Inbound marketing invloves you to get yourself out of your home/work place and represent your skills,your thoughts,your information etc. People believe more if you stand in front of them(e.g. Rand fishkin speaking on stage and in whiteboard friday). it gives more sense if your team mates also represent themselves on stage ( It was my real life experience).

Thanks svolinsky for this awesome stuff showing the reality of the SEO world!! But I regret for not being in the SEO world of year 2000(though I was School Kid at that time).

Thumb up to you.. keep on posting such nice posts!!! Would love to get the real sense of Inbound marketing!! :)

I agree to you Frederik.. Atleast from my point of view.. I don't have enough time(and Money also) to do the setup of load balancing (and it gets more useless , if the change to the website is much minor). Instead ... I would prefer to paste the snippets in My pages to notify the down maintanance status to Bots as well as the visitors.

Thanks Frederik for discussing one of the most common situations in website management. and The most important for which I am thankful to you for showing the importance of HTTP status codes. we all are aware of the fact that there are still some folks who don't understand the imporatnce as well as the meanings of HTTP status codes. I have a question.. If the website is running on IIS, is there any way(excluding the default options available in IIS) to handle the temporary downtime similar to php sites?

Thanks for this lovely stuff!! Would be waiting for more technical posts like this one,from you!

Jenni.. even I have been testing out the efficiency of the GA and I have been using Piwik as an alternative(it's Open source) and I got to see some differences but those were not of that much issue.. the only downside of the Opensource is that their development gets slowed down(thank god it's not in the case of Piwik) and they need separate webspace to store the multiple types of traffic data so if anyone doesn't want to show his data to G, the open source (popular ones e.g. Piwik) are the preffered options!!

Thanks Adam.. for giving us some quick ways to identify the competitors multilinks with same/useless/duplicate contents aka the tricky folk's pages. I agree to you regarding the "Laziness of the people to change the images names and the URL structures" it's easily detectable among the microjob sites. The only thing for which I (perhaps everyone would) have the regret is that we still don't have a straight immediate way to solve this out. But thanks to you, for giving some ways to do some actions regarding this issue, and the lagging point is that , it needs lots of time and patience to get it done.

That's just freakingly awesome post .. paddy. The ways to find the sites list is much good and the simple and straight approach is enough for making it easier. and additionally I would like to thank you for the awesome Seo tools for the excel, it's much handy. I agree to you for twitter's usability, indeed twitter is awesome place to find quality stuffs!! Thumb up to you!

Thanks Slingshot SEO for making us wander in the adventure island of the search Bots... some days ago.. bots were compared with the PacMan and now with the Sonic ..and the Sonic is much poweful like the G bot.. The sonic bot gets the extra powers for destroying its enemies and for longer jumps.. so we can relate that with the Panda Updates and the other ranking singnals updates e.g. The Freshness update. Now SEO is getting much interesting to read and follow.. SOnic , Pac man Bot etc. are making it much attention grabbing to read it again and again.. thumb up to you!

Thanks Casey for this Awesome and simple infographic stating the Algorithm changes.. Great Now I remebered all of the Updates in serial order ,month by month !!! Loved it... no extra reading just seeing and remebering in serial order. thanks thumb up to you!!

Thanks jrcooper.. for rewarding me!!! I agree to you, Moz and distilled's blog are way to start and learn and even your blog is worth to follow.. Just read your posts and one of them which I liked a lot is "is link building becoming content marketing?" They are easy to read and follow !! :)

Thanks Jon for giving us some realistic examples of link bait starting right from SEOmoz, and This was actually much easy and practical to understand and implement. It is being seen that in last year, the usages of infographics have played great role in making viral like contents and the main thing which I learned from your post is that the representation of any information(if it is done in easy and lucrative way) plays important role in understanding and the probablity of sharing, e.g. the SEOmoz's Ranking factors!! and additionally, If we do some brainstorming(as recommended by Distilled) before creating any content for linkbait, that would lead to much success. May be I could think and write a post about world's Largest 11k Megapixel photograph image with panorama view.

Thanks Matt Redford for introducing the more developed version of keywordeye. honestly i say .. I am not an old user so it was pretty helpful for me because I got to know about this tool again and that too in more developed version. It includes almost every kind of feature which every PPC manager and SEO person needs!! thanks for the code and I compared this tool with several top notch keywords tool and I can say that the keywordeye is much good tool because first of all it's powered by SEMRush which ofcourse is much branded keyword research site, and secondly the Keywordeye is free of cost.. please keep us notifying about it's more updation..

Thanks Ann, for this useful post. Although this post is mainly focused on the gues posting's contact segregation,it is useful for almost everybody using email communication. The main stuff which i liked much is the advanced ways of searching the mails from the mail search bar and we all know that most of all have thousands of mails in our inbox hence it becomes much difficult to categorize and search the mails, but you helped it out.

Thanks once again and please keep on posting practical stuffs like this!

Thanks Scott for categorizing the social media strategies based on their four core values. Honestly I say very few people take into their account about their goals,so it's a good point to say that they chould read it and think about their Goals. I liked the differentiation of the internet users done by Foster Research and Harvard Business School, And I got to know that I am suitable to be the part of specatators, and critics(sometimes). The launch of social dashbord from seomoz itself is strong indication of measuring the social media growth of any organization and it became more clear by your words!

Please keep on posting some more social stuffs like this thanks once again Scott.

Hey Phil, Thanks for the brief Recap of the past year's search Surprises. Some of them are really good and beneficial e.g. the launch of Google+, more developed IE from Microsoft ,the SERP got more developed and the social and search integration made the internet marketing world to rely on quality information and New ways of sharing, etc. and some of them were quite shocking and controversial e.g. not able to get the user data of the logged in Users of Google,apple's Siri's Uncompatibity with various search terms.

But in 2012, I think there would be more surprises because the technological drift began rapidly in the mid of 2011 so we can say that it won't stop so early!

Thanks Dr. Pete for showing us the real light through today's Google's SERP layout. It's much time consuming and(I can say confusing also) task to count the organic listings, sometimes the "cd" parameters also make us jumbled.:sad: Now I got one more predcition from you that in Future the Google SERP could be made with infinite scroll mode so again an ease with the user interface for the user but a prob for us.

Now it's been proved with much assurance that Rankings aren't important unless they are driving any traffic for any valuable keyword and unique visitors with much average time on site.

Thanks to Mozzers and SEOmoz that I always kept my focus on organic traffic, unique keywords, organic conversion, and other metrics.

Once again thanks Dr. Pete. I am curiously waiting for your next awesome post. :)

Thanks Jason for showing us some ways inorder to make ourselves perfect/good in our core fields and Not Being a marketer without any skills! many times I have to explain to my clients about the difference between the personalized google searches and general google searches and sometimes it leads to the differenetial results of the country specific searches also and it helps me a lot in easing my work but the time also gets used up in these general things!

I agree to you that Nobody could be perfect in all parts of the online marketing but we should focus on being Good atleast in our core skills!

We need to show the reports of our work performance and I always try to simplify my analytics report so that the client doesn't get confused and asks more and more questions. Last but not the least , never step back if the client asks regarding anything but nor tell anything irrelevant if the client seems confused!

Thanks Corey for giving the idea of using leveinshtien distance equation for rectifying the duplicate content problems, well I applied the above solutions for my site running on PHP script but I have one more site which runs on ASP , so what would be the smart way to solve the problem of duplicate contents for sites running on IIS?

I think I have got the answer for you Nerds on Call in this post.. irrelevant way of being nice Now you tell me why would you send me $1? for my point of view that will be a total way of being irrelevnat modesty which Nobody likes. :)

Yeah right Sajeet Nair,Convonix I agree to you..even I was having the similar feeling now it feels I have to search in Social sites for the people having some wishes for cheap stuffs like diet cokes, chocolates etc.. thanks God it's holiday season so we have a reson to offer the stuffs to people even if they look surprised and that's what we want from the folks!

Thanks Charles for this interesting post! Doing something remarkable and in unexpected way definitely surprises every folk, either it's the fellow mate of your work, your boss or your GF! that's What i used to know But never thought it to be helpful in Linkerati. That's quite humurous and meaningful , you feel better when you surprise someone with a positive way, and the story gets spreaded away within some instances.

I noted some of your point in depth manner i.e. When giving/helping someone never expect returns in reciprocated way, Agreed! Always being helpful in social media is good and Still I have to learn that! doing something in unexpected way is quite awesome thing which i would love to do because it definitely gives lots of buzz and makes you remarkable!

Charles , I would say , the things which you have mentioned in your post is not only helpful in linkerati but in every environment! Thanks a lot once again, Thumb up to you!! Sometime it's good to write about general life story involving social medias and Diet Coke! :)

Thanks Giuseppe Pastore for drawing out attention towards the deceptive usages of rich snippets. I remeber the day when , this feature of rich snippet was launched everybody was just making positive comments about it but fery few trhought about it's vulnerable ways of misuse, and as from your examples i got to know that it's being used in wrong way. So I totally agree with you that Rich Snippet could be the next future ways of spamming the SERP and if Google doesn't find the solution for it, the rich snippet would be used in the same exploited way like meta descriptions used! So the only thing to do is wait for the FIX from Google!

Thanks again for this informative stuff, would love to read more from you! Thumb up to you!

Thanks Dejan for this lightening post made especially for those people whop believe in shortcut ways to rank in SERP. I feel sorry for those ones who suffered the Panda update after wasting their time and money, if they would have taken it seriously and your post were published at that time definitely there would have some rescue efforts for them to make them stop from publishing crap contents and exploiting the search results. i still remember when I use to search for the keyword "Miley Cyrus" in Google of 2003, I hated to see those doorway and content farm like pages. Thanks to the advanced technology of Google.

Even at the time of my early stage of SEO , I was about to fall in the trap of link schemes like Linkwheel etc. but thanks to Moz people and Google Panda Updates awakening me and rescued me before I dived in it!!

Dejan , thanks a lot for making it simple and enlightening!! Would be waiting for more stuffs from you. thumb up to you! :)

That's much motivating, I agree to Eugen for his statement i.e. Every blog, forum should do the segerggation of the top users in monthly or Annual manner. and congrats to all of the listed moz users and mozzers! A real benefit which I got from this blog is that I easily found some of the TOP rocking posts and comments directly from the above lists, thanks Jennita for saving my time and energy in finding the most popular posts by searching and checking manually.

Thanks Cyrus Shepard for giving us a brief overview and possible steps leading to freshness. Earlier I was having just a fade info about it such as... Freshness is somewhat , liked by everybody and bots since long time in some manner, e.g. the Blog posts get easily indexed because of their freshness. that's why Blogs are loved and in the same way, the social media sites News sites etc. are also loved because of their freshness quality. ..

I should say thanks again to you because , Now i have got the possible ways to update my contents in legitmate ways so that , they easily get indexed in SERP without any extra work.

I have a question: If a person keeps on publishing N(lots of) no. of contents in every hour will that lead to spam , because this scenario can be considered as Over publishing for a particular term!

Thanks Eugene for your contribution with this informative and easy to follow post!!

After going through your words, I came to the conclusion that The Dashboard is one of the fundamental stuffs in GA, which everybody should give deep priority and if it is managed accurately by having the perfect target and intention for the site, The GA becomes more interesting stuff to deal with. I always try myself not to get overwhelmed by lots of data , because that overloaded data could make us confused and hence to make the data in an organized manner, the dashbord is definitely much handy.

Thanks for the step by step pictorial representation for customizing the dashbord and suggesting everybody to get the benefits of event tracking(many people still don't use the event tracking :sad: ). Thumb up to you.

Hey Neil .. you are rocking man...I just got some of the mistakes which I could have followed if I didn't read your post.

I use to think that being no. 1 gets yourself to success but i didn't think that is not the final thing to think about instead we should try to be parallel and get the attention and buzz irrespective of our ranking positions.

I use to think that we should follow competitors but instead we should actually observe around them also!

I am using social media sites for some of my promotional activities and thanks for elaborating their importance in more deeply manner. and last but not the least for which I would say, thanks to you is for the various ways of effective advertising in less budget!!

Please keep on posting this kind of industry related stuffs! Lots of thumbs of to you!

Thanks Carson for this emotional and sentimental post! It's quite bit right fact that the Search Engines have developed much more compared to earlier times , and now they can use the stylometry way to recognize between the positive and negative modes of any words. the contextual meaning and user intention plays important role in determining the exact phrase meaning and to some extent it's been shown to everybody , But I am surprised that still it can be tweaked e.g. the Google's Local search results ! I am damn sure, in future there would be more technical development in the sentimental prediction! And thanks for the new addition of new phrase i.e. Stylometry!

Thanks scanlin for this wonderful and attractive post. The ROI is the first and foremost thing which clients want before spending any penny and that's what makes every business to be in profit. thanks for the excel formulas, the excel report is much helpful in order to show the real winning side to the clients if they get the rankings as per the strategy. I would say, the excel sheet can play a role of future mirror indicating the profit margins! Thanks again!!!

Thanks adamjthompson for this easy to follow and readable post regarding Google insights! Google insights gives us lots of ways to think about the right time for the action and marketing e.g. Usually in the month period of October to November and december to january, the selling of fireworks gets more because of the Popular celebrations of diwali in india and Christmas worldwide, that's how we get to know the right time for making ourselves more visible in the world. The main feature of the Google insights(for which it stands different than other tools) is that It provides the Time period with Locations graph.

Thanks Dr. pete for making me hold my breath. I found it much worthy for my client's website! The instructions which you told me was much helpful for getting rid of bad links at some extent. Honestly,

I have a request and please ..please give me a reply for it.

My client's website is being processed through some Negative SEO persons from the competitor side(I suspect) because it has got some bad links from spammy sites and Bad fake reviews and complaints from complaint board forum sites.

What should I do in order to completely make the website's reputation neat and clean?

Honestly I say , I have already applied some of Seomoz's best posts(e.g. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/our-online-reputation-management-playbook)strategies but still didn't get complete gain over the negative SERP and bad links, the negative reviews still show up!

So I want to get the links drawn out of the Bad blogger's blog and fake complaint forums threads! Please give me advice!

It is always better to get more info,stuffs and tools for social media platforms, and it gets more difficult to manage them if we don't know how to use them in right way. hence thanks for making me add another tool in my list and for showing us step by step instructions for using it.. and most of all It's free!!

Thanks Joe, for covering the most commonly faced crawling errors . I wish i could have got your post in early days of my career at the time of interview! With a simple approach and pictorial represenattion, it gets much easy to understand the crawl errors and solve them. Lots of thumbs up to you!

Thanks AndrewDumont for the intereseting post! I have learned that if you have a concept/stuff which is quite helpful in terms of their usuability for a particular group of people and if you release it with a perfect control in beta mode towards some real group of people, it helps in creating much buzz about that product! Spotify did in great way, now I am waiting how does it start in India! Facebook timeline and Google+ have used full advantage of Beta invitations! Google has already planned same step for their another interesting site i.e. Schemer.com!!(best example for now)

I have some examples , which either chose to do over advertising or just not advertising their products( these products were of Big brands) 1. Apple Newton--they did not do any promotion 2. Coca Cola's coke in 1982--they did over advertisment .. and hence these products failed... I think they should have learned these things of creating buzz( it can be done in offline world also because in 1982 ,internet was not so much developed at all.)

Thanks Sha Menz for this easy fix, i can do some some charitable work with it i.e. I would fix the problem of my college website without asking for any extra charges because , the Fix is easy and simple ! Lots of thumbs up to you,

Thanks Tom, for this awsome Tool, it is useful for many reasons,It's simplicity to use , and the readymade data is enough to get in the segregated format by languages, TLD's etc. and last but not the least It's Fast and Free!!! I have a request.. Do you have or Are you working on any tool , which could give us a quick glimpse on social data of any page?

gfiorelli1 You Have given a new definition of the future SEO with the future points of Google! The SEO is going to be the median point of Content marketing,social media and technical seo. And I agree to you that Trust Factor plays very important role in the point of view of Search engines as well as visitors. e.g. Whenever anybody searches for my name in Search engines,the SERP shows my profiles of SEOmoz first because the Moz profiles have got good decent PA. and this makes the Search engines believe to show th moz profiles first and in the same way the Visitor gives more trust factor when he gets to see the trusted profiles in trusted sites. But Alas! that too can be gamed yet it needs lots of efforts! I appreciate your sentence :"SEO is not dyening" .. i am Happy now!!!

I agree to the Highly remarkable influences of contextual and visual contents i.e. images,videos, texts. These stuffs give lots of advantages unless they are irrelevant and spammy type. I have found it much effective in My SMO part, whenever I use descriptive images with interesting contents, I get easily lots of Traffic to my target pages. it is truly applicable to say "A picture is worth a thousand words so it’s important that those words are supportive"

Thanks bob, for this wonderful and informative article. I have questions , when You ask for the links from the target website's/blog's owner, and if that blog/website owner linkbacks to you from his blog's/website's links.html pages which might have some spammy links already , wouldn't that effect on your overall quality score of your website? and I have heard that Google doesn't like pages showing links index on them, so How do you think about this scenario? do you choose to get links from those kind of pages?

First of all i would like to thank you for the Excel which saves my time while calculating vectorspace score, that's totally awesome. I found much genuine scores to give me an idea about my pages. And thanks for the easy to follow readable post about Search engine Algo Basics. It is quite helpful to understand the root level info about Search engines. Hats off to you "rolfbroer" for your hard work. By the way Dutch delights are delicious!

Thanks Sajeet for lucid way of explaining the problems of doorway pages which MIGHT arise due to frequent changes of content with different category. It seems that the correlation between the category and content change is the major reponsible factor, and I agree to you regarding frequent Buying and selling of domains with different content updation . I would like to thank you for giving Straight and simple solution to avoid these horrific situations of being blocked as Doorway Page by the big giants like G, Y and B.

Thanks Frank zimper, for this highly in depth research, The browser based traffic differentiation by The google is quite bad way of disadvantages for the webmasters, It's again a wrong path taken by google.

Since social sites are platform to share everything and as being the owner of our personal profile/Pages and other stuffs linked with that profile , the traffic data should be transparent to the respective Profiles/Pages owners. Additionally Google never Announced this type of sending encrypted referral visits. seems like Google is thinking of so much privacy and I fear in future there would be more barriers from google !

Google has been taking full advantage of Chrome with it's(chrome's) increased popularity, earlier i got to read , for crawling AJAX and other types of contents, The Google Bot takes help of that--That's Good we now got to know little bit about the BOT's hidden Power.

now for the Privacy encryption, behind the stage, the Chrome gives a good platform to google! Who knows? They can do a lot more than that with the help of Chrome.

Frankly, I say Frank Zimper, This blog post is quite like A Crime report type content, which shows the Hidden Face Of ..Big------(I would not say the name) .

Thanks once again Frank for this post, Hats Off to you for your hard work in depth analysis. quite few people would have thought about the referral data path from G+ with Browser based differentiation.

Hey Twkm, thanks for the awesome Bookmarklet, till Now I have found every general On Page and Off Page analysis features and the most loving part is that we don't need to leave the page while analyzing it and It's quite light.

I love it and I have a request...

since I am little bit greedy:Evil smile: for these kinds of stuffs,:->I have a wish , if the bookmarklet gets a feature such as a simple glimpse of the tweets and FB's publicly available stats , likes etc.

Thanks, Would be waiting for stuffs from You like this one. Lots of thumbs up to you!!

Thanks Brettsynder for this awesome info regarding Youtube analytics. The most important and attractive part for me was the "Playback locations" that's much useful to get the idea about the sites and other platforms where the potential visitor visit and watch the videos , additionally the "Traffic Source" is one of the fundamental elements which we definitely need in almost every type of analytics.

The absolute audience retention is quite good way to get to know about the visitors activities on our videos , i wish there would be more development for it so that we could get to know the Real intention of the visitor.

The absolute audience retention is quite helpful for us!

will be waiting for more updates from you regarding the Youtube Analytics.

Thanks slingshot SEO for sharing this awesome infographic with us. I agree to the fact that , the no. of visitors to the Bing are worth to think about and consider them as potential visitors . additionally, i would like to draw the attention towards the WB Friday of Rand with Duane Forrester: He said that the probablity of conversions of the visitors into potential buyers through bing search engines is much high compared to that of other search engines. The meta part is also much considerable as SPAM signal and In my point of view Bing is Co-operating A lot with the webmasters, and that makes me think more about Bing.

Till Now on My experience I have just learned that , we need to make the contents for which people are craving for, nobody likes to read our blog for the same general news ,though they can find the same in higher authority sites, hence for that , we need to create something unique and interesting, and instead of wasting time for promotion of general content , we should utilize our time of making viral and interesting content and that will be enough to be shared autometically by the folks around the popular social sites.

and the above points are now made more realistic after reading your post!